Arkadelphia Public Schools

We love Friday Game Day! Let's go Badgers! We can't wait to see the band, cheer, Dazzlers, and the team perform tonight at Badger Stadium. Game time is 8:00 p.m. #BadgerPride

Friday is Badger Spirit Day! Arkadelphia, get your Badger gear ready to wear in the morning and show that Badger Pride. It's always a great day to be a Badger! #BadgerPride

Our current athletic event schedule for the rest of this week.

Cheryl Hilser joins the staff at Peake Elementary School this year as their new counselor. Cheryl grew up in California. She is a graduate of HSU and ASU. Ms. Hilser is super excited to be a Badger! Welcome Cheryl Hilser to Arkadelphia! #BadgerPride

We are excited about our Peake staff in 2023-24! We welcomed some new faces and some familiar faces are in new places. It's going to be a great year for Peake Elementary School before moving into our new school next year. It's a great day to be a Badger!

APSD welcomes Paige Purifoy to our staff this year. Paige is a P.E. Teacher at Goza Middle School. She will also be the Assistant Coach for volleyball and softball. Coach Purifoy is a graduate of Farmington High School and Ouachita Baptist University. Welcome to Paige Purifoy!

APSD is hiring!!! Please apply online at www.arkadelphia.schoolrecruiter.net. It's a great day to be a Badger!

We are ready for a great week! Our athletic teams have a full schedule including Friday Night Badger Football at home! A reminder to parents to sign and send all the first-day forms back to school with their child by Friday to be eligible to win a $250 gift card. #BadgerPride

We would like to thank all of the businesses that donated door prizes last week at our Back-to-School Celebration! Our employees won some great gifts! We are grateful for such generous partners that want to support Arkadelphia Public Schools. #BadgerPride

At our Back-to-School Celebration, we recognized employees for their Years of Service to the Arkadelphia Public School District. We appreciate the commitment and dedication they have made to work in education in Arkadelphia. Once A Badger Always A Badger #BadgerPride

The Arkadelphia Public Schools’ Classified Staff of the Year was recognized last week at our Back-to-School Celebration. These people are vital to our school district and we appreciate them: Vince Herron, At-Large Personnel Employee of the Year LaSandra Beard, Classroom Personnel Employee of the Year Robert Ledford, Custodial Personnel Employee of the Year Rendi Currey, Office Personnel Employee of the Year Larry Bloomfield, Transportation Personnel Employee of the Year Congratulations to our Employees of the Year! #BadgerPride

Please visit our APSD Child Nutrition webpage for a link to the free/reduced meals online application for 2023-24. You can also set up a MySchoolBucks account to pay online for school meals as well as see school meal menus. www.arkadelphiaschools.org/page/child-nutrition

Arkadelphia Public Schools' Teachers of the Year were recognized last week at our Back-to-School Celebration. We were privileged to honor the following educators: Molly Tucker, Perritt Primary School Teacher of the Year Kelly Rogers, Goza Middle School Teacher of the Year Sara Adams, Arkadelphia High School Teacher of the Year Barbara Hesse, Peake Primary School and Arkadelphia Public School District Teacher of the Year Congratulations to these outstanding teachers! #BadgerPride

Thanks to TTAG Church for providing all of our employees with a gift bag at our Back-to-school Celebration last week. A lot of useful and tasty things for our staff to enjoy. We appreciate you thinking of us! #BadgerPride

Badgers are back to school! We are so excited to see our students back on campus for the new school year. It’s always a great day to be a Badger! #BadgerPride

We are ready to get the 2023-24 School Year started on Monday! We appreciate all our Arkadelphia Public School employees for their hard work to prepare for our students tomorrow morning! After school tomorrow, join us at Badger Stadium to Meet the Badgers! Have a great week!

Attention Parents and Guardians! Patterson Federal Credit Union will be giving a $250 gift card to one family on each of our campuses. The family will be selected during a random drawing. Families are entered into the drawing when a student returns all the Student/Family paperwork that is sent home on the first day of school. This includes handbook, technology, free/reduced meal application, and other important agreements. Any parent who completes the applications through our digital options will be included in the drawing. Please be looking for this packet from your child’s school and return them to get your family in the drawing!

Thank you to Shane Seaton, OBU Recreational Life Director, and the OBU freshmen who spent time last week volunteering at Perritt. The students were participating in FOOT (Freshmen Outdoor Orientation Trip). They were a tremendous help to get Perritt ready for Open House and the start of school! We greatly appreciate your help and welcome to Arkadelphia!

We were honored to help this evening at the Back to School Roundup. Thank you to the organizations and people who worked to make this event possible. #BadgerPride

Don't forget that tonight beginning at 6:00 p.m. is the 15th Annual Back-to-School Roundup at the CADC Building here in Arkadelphia.Thanks to Men United, PFCU, Hostess, CADC, and Junior Auxiliary for providing this opportunity for students!